The Einstein-God analogy does not work on several levels. For one, Einstein *did* try to stop the bomb from being dropped while AFAIK God never said anything to anyone about not killing Jesus. Also, God is supposed to be omnipotent, so anything He doesn't do to stop a murder is all His fault. And then there's the fact that Jesus was being killed for personally committing a crime, while the people of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were mostly innocent civilians being punished for the crimes their Emperor was committing.
I think a major part of what drives what you're talking about is the confusion which Christianity has created by asserting that a mortal man is/was a deity. The Son of God thing is an artifact of the old Greek/Roman/Norse legends, and really has no place in a Judaic-based religion. It turns monotheism into something else.
As for the "he died for your sins" line of talk here, I think there is a human nature aspect to it. The Noble Sacrifice goes back as far as writing does. As far as oral histories do. Christianity just blows it up all out of proportion.
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Date: 2010-05-01 06:09 pm (UTC)I think a major part of what drives what you're talking about is the confusion which Christianity has created by asserting that a mortal man is/was a deity. The Son of God thing is an artifact of the old Greek/Roman/Norse legends, and really has no place in a Judaic-based religion. It turns monotheism into something else.
As for the "he died for your sins" line of talk here, I think there is a human nature aspect to it. The Noble Sacrifice goes back as far as writing does. As far as oral histories do. Christianity just blows it up all out of proportion.